I've seen a lot of speculation on using forums for bug tracking.. While if that's the plan, I will use it; I do, however, sincerely hope it's not going to be forum based for bugs. I've never had much luck with any of that noise personally. If it was possible to somehow link bugzilla to our forum accounts, that is far superior than just manually wading through thousands of forum posts. I wouldn't even be asking for in-game integration, just a button that opens the bugzilla page where we would be able to use our forum accounts to post bugs and search a proper bug-tracking system for existing issues. I've been in QA for quite some time, and know that it's impossible to filter out dupes, but nearly anything would be better than forums. I personally prefer Jira for bug-tracking, but for an indie developer it's likely not a viable option, which is why Bugzilla was mentioned previously. Either way, I'll be providing my expertise for the sake of Starbound. I just wanted to drop a thought out there, because this talk of forums for tracking bugs frightens the daylights out of me
Oh dawg you done it! They releasin it TOMAROW cuz you sed that (I'm not illiterate. I just had to type this out that way to be as annoying as possible. MWAH HAH HAH HAH!)
To be precise, there is a medal for being the 9,001st post, the first post to be as one would say "OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!" but, only for the person whom is the 9,001st poster as far as I can tell.
Mr. Sparten1337X13, there are two pills on the table before you. One red, and one blue. If the right one is taken, Beta will be released in less than an hour. But if the wrong one is taken, then you will suffer a long and agonizingly painful and boring death as you're forced to wait for the beta to be released, only to expire one millionth of a second after the download button becomes available. You can choose to walk away and wait like the rest of the fans. Or you can risk it. Will you gamble, and attempt to figure out which pill will be the right one? Or will you walk away, and satisfy yourself with your imagination, a block of wood, and a paper clip? The choice is yours.
HHHHMMMM.......I KNOW!*Pulls a gun and shoots Skrapes* I'll take BOTH! *Takes both and dies from a stroke caused by an Overdose*
Precisely something like this is what I hope for, any free solution designed for bug tracking will be better than "Post bugs in a forum!" Hoping Chucklefish dodges this bullet.. a proper bug-tracking database is daunting enough when the workload piles in. Much less having multiple workloads... sifting the forum pages, and then the fun of assigning and working the issues.
It's already known that they use GitHub internally so I suspect that they'll use a public GitHub page like Valve does with Steam for Linux.
